Brook B. Roberts

Mr. Roberts’ recent cases include representing:

• GE in the successful resolution of a US$100 million bad faith and coverage litigation for environmental losses sustained by its subsidiary, United Nuclear Corporation    
• Montrose Chemical Corporation in a US$200 million environmental coverage lawsuit. He led the Montrose team before the California Supreme Court in one of the most high-profile insurance coverage disputes in the nation, winning a unanimous victory from in Montrose Chem. Corp. v. Super. Ct. (2020), a landmark win establishing policyholders’ right to “electively stack” multiple years of excess policies to insure against continuous loss claims
• Fluor Corporation and its affiliates in various litigations to secure insurance coverage and prosecute bad faith actions against various carriers for failing to defend and indemnify:
  • US$220 million recovery for asbestos liabilities after obtaining a precedent-setting victory in the California Supreme Court (Fluor Corp. v. Super. Ct. (2015))
  • US$290 million recovery for professional liability claims arising from the nickel/cobalt facility in Western Australia 
  • US$310 million pending bad faith case arising from the carrier’s failure to settle bodily injury claims against Fluor

Thought Leadership

• Co-author, “California Supreme Court Defines Scope of Advertising Injury Coverage,” FC&S Legal: The Insurance Coverage Law Information Center, 2014
• Co-author, “Continental: policyholders entitled to full limits on all triggered policies,” Daily Journal, 2012